The Eagleswood Military Academy was in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and existed in 1861. The Perth Amboy National Bank Building, and a view of the 5 Corners downtown area (Intersections of State and Smith Sts. ...
Founding
The Eagleswood Military Academy was located in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was started by Rebecca (1812-1911) and Marcus Spring (c1810-1874) in 1861. The Springs initially started the Raritan Bay Union, as a utopian community in 1853, but the Union closed in 1860. The Perth Amboy National Bank Building, and a view of the 5 Corners downtown area (Intersections of State and Smith Sts. ... See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ...
Closing
The start of the US Civil War caused many of the Academy's teachers to join the war effort and the school closed. Several years later the site became the Eagleswood Park Hotel until l888 when the Eagleswood estate was sold by the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company to Calvin Pardee who built a ceramic tile company on the site. The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy...
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